Rate My Professor David Johnson

David Johnson serves as Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University, a position he has held since July 2017. He earned his Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2015, an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003, and a B.A. in Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He also completed non-degree studies in Professional Counseling at Texas State University in 2007. Prior to his academic appointment at Wake Forest University, Johnson accumulated practical experience in counseling and supervision, serving at Sage Social Services in San Antonio, Texas from 2014 to 2015, maintaining a private supervision practice in San Antonio from 2013 to 2015, and working at The Settlement Home for Children in Austin, Texas from 2007 to 2010.

David Johnson's research focuses on counselor mindfulness, therapeutic relationships, supervision, and youth mentoring. His scholarly contributions include co-authoring articles such as Ivers, N. N., Johnson, D. A., Lonn, M. R., Duffey, T., Haberstroh, S., & Casares, D. R. (2024). Understanding Prolonged Grief Disorder from an Existential Counseling Perspective, published in the Journal of Counseling and Development; Carrola, P. A., Johnson, D. A., Santana, M., & Gromulska, Z. (2023). The association between counselor ratings of working alliance and in-session empathy among sex offender counselors, in the Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling; and Johnson, D. A., Stone, A., & Marsh, S. (2022). Factorial and construct score validity evidence for the State-Interpersonal Reactivity Index in telemental health care sessions, in Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development. Additional key publications feature works in the Journal of Humanistic Counseling, The Clinical Supervisor, and Journal of Counseling and Development on topics including mindfulness practices, multicultural counseling competence, and counselor empathy assessments. Johnson has earned recognition as an Emerging Leader of the Association for Humanistic Counseling (2018–2019) and Emerging Scholar of the Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling (2014). He secured research grants including a 2021 Association for Assessment and Research in Counseling Sponsored Scholarship Program grant for $3,190 and a Wake Forest University Pilot Research Grant for $10,000. Johnson frequently presents at professional conferences such as the American Counseling Association Annual Conference and serves as a reviewer for the Counselor Education Comprehensive Examination Cooperative since 2017.